Awards & Winners

Dilys Award

Dilys Award

The Dilys Award have been presented every year since 1992 by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. It is given to the mystery title of the year which the member booksellers have most enjoyed selling. The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses that are either wholly or substantially devoted to the sale of mystery books. The Dilys award is named after Dilys Winn, who founded the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States.

Check all the winners of Dilys Award presented under Dilys Award since 1992 .


Alan Bradley

Honored for : The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Roger Jon Ellory A Quiet Belief In Angels
Craig Johnson The Dark Horse
Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Played with Fire
Stuart Neville The Ghosts of Belfast
Louise Penny The Brutal Telling
S. J. Rozan The Shanghai Moon

Sean Chercover

Honored for : Trigger City

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christopher Fowler The Victoria Vanishes
Deanna Raybourn Silent in the Sanctuary
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Don Winslow The Dawn Patrol

William Kent Krueger

Honored for : Thunder Bay: A Cork O'Connor Mystery

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Janet Quin-Harkin Her Royal Spyness
Lisa Lutz The Spellman Files: A Novel
Deanna Raybourn Silent in the Grave
Marcus Sakey The Blade Itself

Louise Penny

Honored for : Still Life

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
James R. Benn Billy Boyle
Steve Hockensmith Holmes on the Range
John J. Lamb The Mournful Teddy
Diane Setterfield The Thirteenth Tale
Nancy Pickard The Virgin of Small Plains

Colin Cotterill

Honored for : Thirty-Three Teeth

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Terence Faherty In a Teapot
Craig Johnson The Cold Dish
Morag Joss Half-Broken Things
Mark Schweitzer The Tenor Wore Tap Shoes
Don Winslow The Power of the Dog

Jeff Lindsay

Honored for : Dexter

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lee Child The Enemy
Jasper Fforde Something's Rotten
Leslie Silbert The Queen
Jacqueline Winspear Birds of a feather
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind

Jasper Fforde

Honored for : Lost in a Good Book

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Donna Andrews Crouching buzzard, leaping loon
William Brodrick The sixth lamentation
Patricia Lambrecht Want to Play?
Traci Lambrecht Want to Play?
Jacqueline Winspear Maisie Dobbs

Julia Spencer-Fleming

Honored for : In the Bleak Midwinter

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Donna Andrews You've got murder
Lee Child Without Fail
Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair
George Pelecanos Hell to Pay

Dennis Lehane

Honored for : Mystic River

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Handler The cold blue blood
Charlaine Harris Dead Until Dark
William Kent Krueger Purgatory Ridge
Peter Lovesey The Reaper

Val McDermid

Honored for : A Place of Execution

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sarah Caudwell The Sibyl in Her Grave
Tim Cockey The hearse you came in on
Robert Crais Demolition Angel
Janet Evanovich Hot Six

Robert Crais

Honored for : L.A. Requiem

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Rennie Airth River of Darkness
Donna Andrews Murder with Peacocks
William Kent Krueger Boundary Waters
Don Winslow California fire and life

Dennis Lehane

Honored for : Gone Baby Gone

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nevada Barr Blind Descent
Richard Barre The Ghosts of Morning
James Lee Burke Sunset Limited
William Kent Krueger Iron Lake
Charles Todd Wings of Fire

Janet Evanovich

Honored for : Three to Get Deadly

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lee Child Killing Floor
Harlan Coben Back spin
Dennis Lehane Sacred
Kathy Reichs Déjà Dead
Kate Ross The Devil in Music

Michael Connelly

Honored for : The Poet

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Harlan Coben Fade Away
Margaret Lawrence Hearts and Bones
Dennis Lehane Darkness, Take My Hand
Michael McGarrity Tularosa
Steve Oliver Moody Gets the Blues
Thomas Perry Dance for the Dead
Charles Todd A Test of Wills
Caroline Todd A Test of Wills

Michael Connelly

Honored for : The Last Coyote

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Crais Voodoo River
G.M. Ford Who in hell is Wanda Fuca?
Sharyn McCrumb If I'd killed him when I met him
Tom Topor The Codicil

Janet Evanovich

Honored for : One for the Money

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Jeff Abbott Do Unto Others
Nancy Atherton Aunt Dimity and the Duke
Nevada Barr A Superior Death
Michael Connelly The Concrete Blonde
Carol O'Connell Mallory's Oracle
Susan Wade Walking Rain

Peter Høeg

Honored for : Smilla's Sense of Snow

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sharan Newman Death Comes as Epiphany
Marcia Muller Wolf in the Shadows
Sandra West Prowell BY EVIL MEANS
Steven Saylor Catilina's Riddle
Minette Walters The Sculptress
Don Winslow Way Down On The High Lonely

John Dunning

Honored for : Booked To Die

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Michael Connelly The Black Echo
Margaret Maron Bootlegger's Daughter
Minette Walters The Imperial Ice House

Carl Hiaasen

Honored for : Native Tongue

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Elizabeth George A Suitable Vengeance
Stephen Greenleaf The Book Case
J. A. Jance Hour of the Hunter
Valerie Wolzien We Wish You a Merry Murder